Chapter 149 Don’t Call Me Sister

"This is Master's home. We will not give it up."

"We'll be back."

Qin Shuang and Gu Huayu each pulled up one of Mianmian's shoulders and leaped onto the roof.

Li Hongxin led his men to chase after it, but Mianmian, with blood on the corners of her mouth, suddenly turned around and looked at Li Jidao and said, "If you catch up, I will detonate the spirit stone and perish with it."

Li Hongxin and others looked frightened.

Li Jidao raised her hand and told everyone to stop chasing her. After doing this, she spat out blood again and passed out.

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"Sister, I really just want to learn the skills and protect you."

Under the Dendrobium tree, the girl clasped her hands to her face and took a nap on a rattan chair.

A round-faced girl holding a rabbit in her arms walked up to her.

Li Jidao opened his sleepy eyes, put down the scroll, raised his head and said, "Mianmian, you haven't completed your body repair, so you can't learn the exercises. If you force yourself to practice, your body will be exhausted in the end, and you will die."

"You are my wet nurse's child. I will not harm you. Your body is not suitable for learning the exercises. It will cause too much damage and shorten your life."

Mianmian's eyes turned red as she said: "But now that our ancestor is gone, you are all alone. I can learn some skills to protect my sister and prevent her from being bullied."

"No need. Life and death are determined by fate, and wealth and honor are determined by God. If I can't even protect myself, it doesn't matter whether I live or die."

After Li Jidao finished speaking, he stood up and was about to leave. After thinking for a moment, he turned around and said, "Mianmian, are you trying to imply that I should help you heal your body like my father did? It's impossible. My father has only healed himself to this point. I am not as good as him and cannot help you."

Mianmian looked panicked: "Sister, why would I ask you to do that? I know this will consume my perception."

It's not that she is afraid of consumption, but if she repairs it, she can only harm her own life, because it has reached the most critical part of her heart.

"Forget it! By the way, Mianmian, stop calling me sister. There are thousands of people in my family who call me ancestor. If you call me sister, it will shorten your life. You can't afford it."

Mianmian's eyes were filled with disappointment and grievance: "Okay!"

Li Jidao returned to the bedroom and set up a barrier so that no one could enter except herself.

At night, the stars are shining brightly.

Li Jidao, Qin Shuang and Gu Huayu sat in the observatory and recorded the stars.

There are meteors streaking across the sky, and Sirius and Ziwei are facing each other, which indicates that a powerful hero will emerge in the world.

Li Jidao was recording very seriously. He turned back inadvertently and saw Qin Shuang and Gu Huayu whispering about something.

What she hates most is being distracted when she's doing something.

"If you think today's astronomical phenomenon is unimportant, you don't have to come and see it."

"No, Master, it's..."

"What is it? Mianmian also wants to come and observe the stars, and you guys want to beg for mercy?"

Qin Shuang and Gu Huayu looked at each other with embarrassed expressions.

Qin Shuang stood up and said, "Mianmian really wants to join us. The four of us grew up together, and we used to be together no matter what we did. But now there are only three of us left, and it seems that she has been excluded."

"So, you think I'm squeezing her out?"

Li Jidao put down his pen and said with a smile, "Some people outside say that I have two concubines and that I only like to help men but discriminate against women. So, do you think so too? Do you think I am very unfair to Mianmian?"

She said in a somewhat cold voice: "Qin Shuang, I didn't allow you to teach the Mian Mian technique, but you taught it anyway. What happened in the end? You almost killed her, but wasn't it me who saved her in the end?"

"Since you are all studying the Book of Changes and Taoism, you should know that the first wisdom of the Book of Changes is to follow nature's course."

"There are many branches of letting nature take its course, and it varies according to local conditions and people. Everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses, and this cannot be forced."

"Her body cannot rest. If she forces herself to learn the technique, she will die early. I have told you this countless times."

"Master, please don't be angry. We will never teach you the Mianmian technique again." Gu Huayu said.

Li Jidao pointed downstairs and said, "You guys go down first. I don't think you really like practicing the technique, but I don't. I like it from the bottom of my heart."

"Master, Master, we like it very much. We really like to learn..."

The two men panicked and knelt in front of Li Jidao.

Li Jidao said, "Go down and think it over first."

She was so serious that the two of them turned around with their heads down.

Li Jidao suddenly stopped them and said, "Although I grew up with you, it doesn't mean that we are friends, master and apprentice, or master and servant. Some things will never change no matter how well we play together."

"You will be seventeen soon. You can actually be independent now. Think about it."

"Master, Master..."

Li Jidao didn't say anything else. After the two people left, she put away the things she had recorded, walked on the roof tiles, and went from Changchun Garden to Qinxin Garden.

At the Cui family observatory, Cui Chengfeng heard the noise, the corners of his mouth twitched, and he told all the servants to go downstairs and rest so as not to disturb him from stargazing.

Then he boiled water on the stove. When Li Jidao came over, the water had just boiled and he started to make tea.

Li Jidao sat down and looked at his records, then compared them with his own records and wrote a summary.

"You look like you're worried about something." Cui Chengfeng handed the brewed green tea to Li Jidao.

Li Jidao took it and said with a smile: "You can actually tell whether others are happy or not. When did you learn this skill?"

"Why? Do you still have any worries?" Cui Chengfeng thought for a moment and asked, "Your maidservant?"

"To be honest, I can't quite see through her, and I can't tell whether she's good or bad. Have you calculated it for her?"

Li Jidao shook his head and said, "No, no matter what, I drank her mother's milk, no matter what, I have to bear it, this is karma."

Li Jidao's mother divorced her father after giving birth to her, and it is said that she never even looked at her a second time.

The wet nurse and the servants were all taken away because my father respected my mother very much and she had always been taking care of the backyard, but suddenly everyone left.

My father wanted to find a better wet nurse temporarily, but where to find one? He was in a panic and found three, thinking that he would keep the best one.

They can afford to support them all if they stay.

Who knew that Li Jidao would vomit milk after drinking milk from those two, and could only sleep soundly after drinking milk from his wet nurse.

Gradually, she began to rely on her wet nurse for everything.

But when she was three years old, her father discovered that her wet nurse's own son had starved to death because Li Jidao was breastfeeding.

From then on, his father felt very sorry for the wet nurse and asked Li Jidao to be filial to her. Later, the wet nurse's family also moved to Changchun Garden.

However, none of their family members lived long, and only Mianmian, who was two years younger than Li Jidao, was left.

Mianmian was in poor health when she was born, and it was her father who had been repairing her body.

But my father died suddenly, and there was no way that my body could fully recover.